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| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 12:55:02
Yesterday, I found myself making centaurs, medium sized hybsil, female wemics/lamia, and a snakewoman (weresnake/yuan-ti/lamia noble) from a model of an "Egyptian witch". Its not unique of an idea, but it made me think about other tauric races that might exist that we've never really explored in D&D for culture, religion, powers, etc...
So, one that I thought could probably exist, and that might be fun here to just speculate on (you know get the creative juices flowing) would be a size small fox tauric (bottom half fox, top half an elf-like/kender-like form with fox ears on top of the head replacing standard elf/kender ears). I'm deliberately going lest bestial in the face (no fox nose, no tufted fur cheeks) simple because I'm NOT an artist and I feel like making a model from the aforementioned Egyptian witch. Do we already have such a race anywhere in D&D already? If not, I'm thinking to key the name Foxiytaur.
Culturally, I see these creatures getting along swimmingly with forest gnomes, and if they happened to be in the same area, ghostwise halflings, as well as things like fey, elves, etc.... I'm thinking about introducing the creatures in a "hidden valley" that's over in Anchorome with forest gnomes, a racoon-man race, and some half-elves. I picture them as a very playful race, while also having some level of savagery. I picture them having strong ties to illusion and enchantment magics. (Sidenote: I've never read Elfquest, but I imagine it might be useful to mine it for ideas). I could see them possibly worshipping some gnomish gods (specifically Baervan Wildwanderer and Baravar Cloakshadow) as tricksterish deities, the halfling goddess Sheela Peryroyl as a nature goddess, and an elven deity (Fenmarel Mestarine) as a hunting god, and Lurue as a goddess of intelligent beasts. I was also thinking about such deities as Shiallia possibly replacing Sheela Peryroyl, but she tends to be a local deity (and yes, I am noticing a similarity in those deity's names and portfolios now, but I'm not interested in conflating them). Alternatively, these deities could all be the sylvan gods like Titania (faerie queen), Verenestra (dryads), Squelaiche (leprechauns), Damh (Satyrs and Korreds), Nathair Sgiathach(faerie and pseudodragons) and possibly with an enemy goddess in the Queen of Air and Darkness.
So, given this premise, put on your imagination hat... what sounds like some good powers, traits, habits, cultural anecdotes, enemies, allies, housing, dress.... whatever... that comes to your mind as I describe this. No idea is bad. Is there something interesting about foxes that most of us don't know that could prove interesting with this race that maybe your child read about in Ranger Rick? I'm picturing them coming in the colors red, white, silver, and black with similar fleshtones (red ones have tanned skin, white/silver are pale, black have a chestnut brown coloration)... any other colors? Any other ideas? |
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| sleyvas |
Posted - 05 Aug 2020 : 16:08:05
So, on a backstory for them, read this, give feedback for improvements. Anchoring them more to Anchorome.
They were originally a tribe of Uldra (a small fey race who lives in tundra) who travelled to the Spirit World fleeing the service of the Queen of Air and Darkness for freeing a prisoner from her jails. The prisoner was a beautiful, flaxen haired woman of great life energy, and it was whispered that the Queen planned to present her to the Black Diamond. The Uldra were being pursued by the forces of her trusted servant, Shakak the Winter Spirit, and were continually tracked by scores of black and white magpies. They had no food, but each night when they sought a place to rest, the maiden would spread her arms and present them with a stack of maize, for the prisoner that they had freed was no less than one of the Corn Maidens. Each morning, they would see the white, bear-like forms of their Urskan pursuers on the horizon, their bronze armor flickering in the reflection off the dawn cock's fiery feathers and betraying them, for the Sun Father held no love for Shakak nor the Urskan.
On the first night, they came to an encampment of a clan of snow elves, and they offered to share their bounty of corn with the elves if they might be able to simply share their fire for the night. The elves readily agreed, and asked their god, Fenmarel Mestarine to bless the uldra and the Corn Maiden. The next morning, a pack of wolves appeared to carry the uldra and the Corn Maiden, just moments before the Urskan set upon them. The snow elves instructed the uldra to flee while they held the mighty bear folk at bay, dying one and all, causing the Corn Maiden to weep in sorrow for the tragedy her freedom had caused. The uldra did give praise to Fenmarel Mestarine for his gift, for surely they would have died without it.
On the second night, the Uldra came to a frozen forest, where they met a large family of the tiny squirrelfolk known as Kercpa. The Kercpa told the Uldra they would help guide them through the forest to evade their pursuers, and called upon Rititisk the Clever for aid. Rititisk heard their pleas, and he did encourage that the great caribou, Besparr the Manylegged, and his rabbit mount, Harifur, should breed. The next morning, a nesting of newborn giant jackalopes did appear in the forest ready to bear the Uldra and the Corn Maiden away from their pursuers. As well, a group of moose-headed Shatjan and a tauric deer folk had been sent from the spirit world to harry the bear folk. As the Urskan did approach, the wily kercpa caused great net traps entrap their pursuers and slow them down, and together they fled deeper into the forest. Staying high in the trees, the kercpa did harry the Urskan and hurl curses upon them for their evil, allowing the uldra to escape their pursuers. The Shatjan did take great bone axes and hold back the Urskan, while the deer folk did pepper them with arrows from range. The Urskan, with great loss of life, did retreat from this thread, vowing they would get revenge upon the rebellious uldra that had cost them so much. The uldra did give praise to Rititisk the Clever and Besparr the Manylegged for their gift, for surely they would have died without it.
One the third night, they came to a tribe of short ones living in a grove of giant honeysuckle, flowering apple trees, and large thickets of blackberries. The short ones listened to the story of the uldra's plight and agreed to let them stay for all of the corn provided by the Corn Maiden. The short ones did pray to their goddess, Sheela Peryroyl, for aid. Their goddess heard and instructed them not to eat of the corn, but rather to separate the corn kernels and put them in great pouches. She also instructed that the cooks amongst the short ones must provide food for the uldra and corn maiden. Working hard overnight, the short ones did as their goddess instructed. They did prepare for them a great feast of honeyed cakes, applie pie, and blackberry tarts, packing them in woven baskets so that the uldra may carry them with them to eat as they ran. and the uldra did praise the short ones for their generosity. But in the morning, the growls of the Urskan could be heard on the horizon, and they saw that their giant jackalope mounts were slaughtered and being eaten by the hungry bear folk. All knew that death was upon them, and soon the Urskan turned towards the short one's village with a hungry gleam in their eyes. The short ones wasted not a moment and began hurling the corn kernels from their pouches and fleeing the village. They told the uldra to hurry on their way, for their goddess had sworn she would protect them. As the light of the dawn cock's feathers struck the corn kernels, they burst into full bloom, and within moments a forest of corn stalks separated the uldra and the Corn Maiden from their pursuers. The uldra did give praise to Sheela Peryroyl for her gift, for surely they would have died without it.
As they fled the Urskan, the uldra began to grow tired and footsore, and they feared that the bear folk would soon catch them. It was then that they came across the spirit of Wily Fox, for he had heard of the uldra's plight from the ever gossiping Rititisk the Clever, and he decided to meet them and see if they were deserving of his aid. Wily Fox did appear to them, and offered to walk with them. When the uldra complained of being tired, he noted that he was just getting warmed up. When the uldra complained of walking on hills, he noted that his four paws made such travels easy. When the uldra complained of being overly hot, he simply laughed and said that their bodies were not made for the warmer weathers that they were approaching. Finally, the uldra grew tired of his boasting and told him that they were glad that he had no such difficulties, but they were not like him, and that they were tired and needed a place to rest. With a sly look, Wily Fox then did look at them and asked "Would you like my help to lessen your plight? I know of a place where you can stay that will help you. You have but to ask and swear to be friends of the forest, and I shall make it so". The uldra quickly agreed, and Wily Fox led them to a den of young fox pups and told them that they should sleep with the pups for the night. The next morning Wily Fox was gone, but they awoke to find their bodies had changed. From the waist down, their bodies were that of a fox, and their torsos were more suited to the warm weather. Instinctively they knew that they were now his people, the Ee'Na'Li, and they must offer him praise. With renewed vigour and hope, the Ee'Na'Li and the Corn Maiden once again set off with the Urskan still in pursuit.
On the fourth night, they met a clan of forest gnomes living in an oaken grove protected by dryads. The forest gnomes offered them the comforts of a bed, warmth of a fire, and prayers to Baervan Wildwanderer. Baervan heard their pleas and asked his raccoon, Chiktikka Fastpaws, to send aid. The dryads did call upon Verenestra the Oak Princess. Seeing her friend, the Corn Maiden, in jeopardy, the sylvan princess swore that she would protect them. The next morning, the Ee'Na'Li and forest gnomes feared that the urskan would fall upon them and devour them. The dryads looked upon the sharp axes of the urskan and feared for their precious tree homes. But, as the Urskan did approach the village, great thorny vines did grow to hinder their pursuit and tangle in their fur, and so the Urskan decided they would besiege the gnomes and eat them when they left to seek food. Cruelly did they laugh at their brilliant plan, for they were tiring of this pursuit, and surely they had finally caught their prey and had but to wait them out. The uldra and forest gnomes were afraid, for though Verenestra was surely protecting them, still they knew that they were caught. But, in the light of the dawn cock's first blush, they found that a number of the gnomes were transformed into a raccoon folk and blessed with knowledge of a path through the sticky thickets that no bear folk could follow. Thus did they all flew through a hidden tunnel amongst the vines in secret, leaving the Urskan behind around an empty village. The Ee'Na'Li and gnomes did give praise to Baervan Wildwanderer and Verenestra the Oak Princess for their gifts, for surely they would have died without them.
The Urskan could only be fooled for so long however, and their magpie scouts soon caught sight of the Ee'Na'Li and the forest gnomes. The Urskan knew they had been tricked, and feared the wrath of Shakak the Winter Spirit and his Queen, even though they had gone far beyond the ice and snow of the tundra lands. They soon took up the pursuit again, without making camp, and become tired and footsore and hot. Along the way, Wily Fox and Rititisk the Clever did appear, just outside of the Urskan's reach, but not outside of their hearing. The two great spirits did jabber back and forth, laughing at the plight of the Urskan, for surely they would not catch the Corn Maiden and would be disciplined for their failure. Surely their punishment would be a slow and painul death, mocked Wily Fox, to which Rititisk agreed most fervently. The Urskan began to grumble of their plight, and some even swore of their hatred of their cruel mistress and her unforgiving nature. If only they had some way to escape the Queen's ire, they would surely take it, for they cared not what happened to the Corn Maiden. To this, Wily Fox replied, "Well, surely if that is the case, I may know a friend who can protect you. He is strong and brave, much like yourselves, and if you swear yourself to him, he will not be afraid to stand up against your queen in the warm lands, for surely she cannot stand against him here. You have but to prove yourself by turning against any who refuse to stand against your queen, and I can bring him here to protect you. Surely this is not too much of a price to pay?" The Urskan then did stop their pursuit and begin arguing amongst themselves, and the bear folk found themselves split in their minds as to what to do. One faction finally swore that they would stop their fellows at all costs should they choose to continue to pursue the Ee'Na'Li and the Corn Maiden. It was then that a great bear spirit, Magnaer the Strong, appeared above them and waved his mighty paw, and those who stood boldly found their fur stained brown and black and their claws imbued with divine power. His command was simple, stop those who stood against his will and that of the great spirits of the forest. The bloodshed was quick and their fury terrible to behold, and afterward the bearfolk did feel sorrow at their actions. It was then that a second bear spirit, Magnaer's mate, Balanis the Honey Princess, and she did tell them that they must forgive each other and themselves, for evil is a festering sore upon the world. She told them she would provide them a drink which would help them and soften their hearts against their guilt, if they would swear to sing the praises of herself and her mate. The bear folk did quickly agree, for the pain of their sorrow was heavy indeed, and Balanis did turn a nearby river into a river of honey mead. The bear folk did drink deeply from this river, and they found their guilt lessening with each drink. From the edge of the forest, Wily Fox did watch the bear folk, and he knew the Ee'Na'Li and the Corn Maiden were now safe, and slowly a grin did spread across his face.
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| sleyvas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 17:28:42
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Originally posted by LordofBones
I'm...I'm sorry, the concept is interesting but...foxytaurs.
It's just...foxytaurs.
It sounds like a 90s Disney cartoon.
LOL, I know, I was smiling when I wrote it up. The fact that "foxy" is a bit of a slang term in our society tickled my funnybone (everytime I hear it, I picture them shaking their hair). That being said, I like the idea that humans came up with that name and used it... because you hear it and you can almost see the race without having to go "what's that?". It makes it even better that the foxiytaurs hate it, as it becomes a schtick for a player to use.... its like that nickname you give to a friend that they hate (yep, that friend you have that's lactose intolerant and got the nickname "stinky").
I'm also really liking the idea that they are fiends for any kind of cooked fruit, especially in baked goods. I picture these guys as just a little hyper. I'm picturing their racial bonuses in dex and charisma, and bards are probably really common, as they're natural storytellers. |
| LordofBones |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 15:07:15
I'm...I'm sorry, the concept is interesting but...foxytaurs.
It's just...foxytaurs.
It sounds like a 90s Disney cartoon. |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 03:17:06
quote:
Originally posted by Kentinal
sleyvas I have seen many of your work and I do understand you are still learning. You though doing much better then I, because right I now can not do any of that you have already done.
Its all good. I thank you for the honest feedback, because so many people won't do that. BTW, since we're talking about my 3d models, let me share something with you that explains why I get a kick out of making these things.
https://www.thingiverse.com/make:834961
Click that. Its rare that someone shows me a make of one of my models, but this guy just did a couple hours ago. It tickles me like you don't know to see someone else making something for real out of something I dreamed up and painting it. He did a really good paint job too. You can see my painted version that I did in paint3d beside it. |
| Baltas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 02:28:25
quote:
Originally posted by sleyvas
I-na-li
Hmmm, Ee'na'li ....
"We are the Ee'na'li, protectors of the purple apples of Pa'na'lu Grove".
Sound good or goofy?
I think it sounds good. |
| Kentinal |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 01:41:55
sleyvas I have seen many of your work and I do understand you are still learning. You though doing much better then I, because right I now can not do any of that you have already done.
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| sleyvas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 01:22:22
quote:
Originally posted by Kentinal
quote:
Originally posted by sleyvas
changed the body model to a more anime looking character (big head, thinner arms, bigger eyes) and made this one a druid (maple leaf wand and a scimitar). Not saying all are like this one, but some are.
Foxiytaur Druid (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4560873) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.
It does look nice, however a few things struck me as misplaced or possible error.
It looks like ears are part of hat, rather then passing though the hat.
It is hard to see right hand, is there one there?
What is holding the staff and purse/pouch up?
Yep, I don't create my models from scratch, I find other people's stuff and I tear pieces from them and mash them together, and then give references to the sources. As a result, I put out a lot more models than most (I did 6 yesterday and 3 today). That being said, I suspect that few get actual use, so its more to throw out general ideas or to give someone a mini that they can make that looks "close enough". I think tomorrow I'm going to try and find a torso model of a male to use, since I don't have a male yet, and that will be the last model I create for these. I will then see if people start asking about it wanting mods.
That being said... I agree, the ears are very much hard to add in. Thank god I chose not to add the nose.
On the hand, that's the original designer. The character was looking like maybe it was spinning with one arm behind. I can adjust that, but I've not learned how to do that easily without it taking a lot of time to clean up the mess. For that reason, unless I have a really good reason, I try not to adjust hands, etc...
On the pouches and things, I stuck something around the waist that is representative of a belt (and hides where the fox body and anime body are clumsily mashed together).
BTW, I'm not ashamed to say I'm a newb to 3d model design, and I appreciate feedback. A lot of times trying to do something for people teaches me something new. For instance, I was doing something for Eric and it opened my eyes to how to make text go in a circle, which meant if I made a new wingding font of pictures, I could literally TYPE a 3d model. You'll see a bunch of celtic looking or fire crowns that I made after that, and it was entirely me trying to make 3d objects with text. |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 01:10:52
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Originally posted by Baltas
About the name, I thought about maybe giving the endonym of Foxiytaurs, or at least the Anchorome namme to be derived from a Native American word for foxes. Fox for example in:
- Cherokee - singular i-na-li or tsu-la
- Cree - singular mahkêsîs
- Ojibwe - singular waagosh, plural waagoshag
- Navajo - singular ma-e or m#261;#700;ii #322;iitsohí, plural Ma#700;ii#700; #322;iitsohi#700;
(I apologize if I got these wrong, as I searched just the net for these).
I-na-li
Hmmm, Ee'na'li ....
"We are the Ee'na'li, protectors of the purple apples of Pa'na'lu Grove".
Sound good or goofy? |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 01:06:01
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
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Originally posted by Ayrik
And beware! Equipping a halfling with two stomachs just can't lead to anything good.
What have we done? Now the Realms are on the verge of its first world food crisis!
They are NOTHING like halflings... they are NOT obsessed with CHEEEEESE.... watch your fingers though if you leave out an apple pie, or a cherry pie, or plum preserves, OOOOO or blueberry muffins.  |
| Kentinal |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 01:04:43
quote:
Originally posted by sleyvas
changed the body model to a more anime looking character (big head, thinner arms, bigger eyes) and made this one a druid (maple leaf wand and a scimitar). Not saying all are like this one, but some are.
Foxiytaur Druid (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4560873) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.
It does look nice, however a few things struck me as misplaced or possible error.
It looks like ears are part of hat, rather then passing though the hat.
It is hard to see right hand, is there one there?
What is holding the staff and purse/pouch up?
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| sleyvas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 01:01:54
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Originally posted by Seethyr
Maybe vulpins? Maybe their upper torso is more sprite/brownie/pixie or even puckwudgie? I like them as sly and fast creatures and perhaps evil hunters from the shadowfell chased them from the feywild with shadow mastiffs.
Yep, we're of the same mindset on the look. I hope you get where I'm already thinking about putting them in Anchorome, though I'd be interested in hearing alternative ideas. Its where you had some half-elves.
As to where they come from, I'm torn between the spirit world and the feywild, but I'm leaning feywild. I actually think I'd have them come through a feywild crossroad at Raelkath's Sprout, which is a giant tree I'm sticking in the northern Adusgee where there's all the kercpa and shatjan and anchorome hybsil. Why they came and when? Dunno. It may have been long ago and maybe they were a lot more prominent and their population has steadily declined.
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| Baltas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 00:48:57
It's a quite good design (and cute). |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 00:47:49
changed the body model to a more anime looking character (big head, thinner arms, bigger eyes) and made this one a druid (maple leaf wand and a scimitar). Not saying all are like this one, but some are.
Foxiytaur Druid (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4560873) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license. |
| Baltas |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 00:43:46
About the name, I thought about maybe giving the endonym of Foxiytaurs, or at least the Anchorome namme to be derived from a Native American word for foxes. Fox for example in:
- Cherokee - singular i-na-li or tsu-la
- Cree - singular mahkêsîs
- Ojibwe - singular waagosh, plural waagoshag
- Navajo - singular ma-e or m#261;#700;ii #322;iitsohí, plural Ma#700;ii#700; #322;iitsohi#700;
(I apologize if I got these wrong, as I searched just the net for these).
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| Zeromaru X |
Posted - 04 Aug 2020 : 00:30:47
quote:
Originally posted by Ayrik
And beware! Equipping a halfling with two stomachs just can't lead to anything good.
What have we done? Now the Realms are on the verge of its first world food crisis! |
| Seethyr |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 23:36:02
Maybe vulpins? Maybe their upper torso is more sprite/brownie/pixie or even puckwudgie? I like them as sly and fast creatures and perhaps evil hunters from the shadowfell chased them from the feywild with shadow mastiffs. |
| Ayrik |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 22:28:10
I recall the centaurs depicted on shows like Hercules and Xena - and even the centaur-like Vedrans on Andromeda. They were all real performers enhanced by limited CGI, they were all disproportionately undersized, and they were all visually very unconvincing.
A proper centauroid needs some bulk, in my opinion, human-sized torsos are more or less half the size of a human so the associated animal hindquarters need to be scaled accordingly and the whole creature ends up being larger than a human.
And beware! Equipping a halfling with two stomachs just can't lead to anything good.
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| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 21:18:23
quote:
Originally posted by Kentinal
quote:
Originally posted by sleyvas
(Sidenote: I've never read Elfquest, but I imagine it might be useful to mine it for ideas).
I found these useful when dealing with wolfriders.
http://elfquest.com/read/digitalEQ.html
This though is not a taur type thing. Nor were. It is something a little different, or some might claim very different.
Well, I'm not just thinking of it for the fact that they are a somewhat similar culture. The "torso" of these foxiytaurs I'm kind of picturing as similar to the elves of elfquest (smaller bodies, big heads with big eyes... kind of anime looking). |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 21:06:44
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Originally posted by Zeromaru X
quote:
Originally posted by sleyvas
quote:
Originally posted by Zeromaru X
The unholy mix of a halfling and a fox? Or are they fey? Which would mean they will be a mix of gnome and fox. Even unholier...
YES... halfling look, but with less meals... and gnomish for general outlook. I'm thinking they MAY be fey, in that I do want to have them generally in forests and possibly some minor magics.
I like the idea of they being fey. They may be common in the Feywild and just started to appear on Toril post-SS.
And also, I agree with Wooly. Vulpetaur sounds better. Perhaps too similar to the vulperas, tho.
I'll have to consider some options, and maybe they have a name for themselves without "taur" in it, but HUMANS (a**holes that they are) came up with their own name for them, and it stuck... and maybe they don't appreciate the name foxiytaur. Maybe they recognize that "they don't mean anything bad by it when they call us that... they're just morons". Maybe in return they've come up with a name for humans. Kind of like how in Willow the short folk were Nelwins, but humans called them Pecks.... and Nelwins called humans Daikini. |
| Kentinal |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 20:50:44
quote:
Originally posted by sleyvas
(Sidenote: I've never read Elfquest, but I imagine it might be useful to mine it for ideas).
I found these useful when dealing with wolfriders.
http://elfquest.com/read/digitalEQ.html
This though is not a taur type thing. Nor were. It is something a little different, or some might claim very different. |
| Zeromaru X |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 20:36:43
quote:
Originally posted by sleyvas
quote:
Originally posted by Zeromaru X
The unholy mix of a halfling and a fox? Or are they fey? Which would mean they will be a mix of gnome and fox. Even unholier...
YES... halfling look, but with less meals... and gnomish for general outlook. I'm thinking they MAY be fey, in that I do want to have them generally in forests and possibly some minor magics.
I like the idea of they being fey. They may be common in the Feywild and just started to appear on Toril post-SS.
And also, I agree with Wooly. Vulpetaur sounds better. Perhaps too similar to the vulperas, tho. |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 20:23:47
So, thinking about abilities, I've always thought the deep gnome ability to summon earth elementals if they work as a group was interesting. What if these guys can work together to make animated trees or summon a wood woad or something similar. Its something not specifically fox-like, so its a little surprising. My initial thought though was them summoning a dryad, but that becomes problematic if there's no tree that one inhabits.
Then again.... help me here... what if they can make any tree into a "gateway" for a dryad to use as their home tree as long as its in the same forest as the dryad, thus these creatures might enable dryads to go somewhere that they couldn't normally go?
It might be interesting too if they have a couple cantrips or low level spells. Charisma based. Going to throw out some options, you guys tell me which ones you really like
cantrip - druidcraft
cantrip - shillelagh
1st lvl spell - animal friendship 1/day
1st lvl spell - find familiar 1/day (limited to animals of size tiny, so no faerie dragons, no pixies, no quasits, etc..)
1st lvl spell - goodberry 1/day
1st lvl spell - speak with animals 1/day
1st lvl spell - longstrider 1/day
1st lvl spell - silent image 1/day
2nd lvl spell - beast sense 1/day
2nd lvl spell - locate animals or plants 1/day
2nd lvl spell - animal messenger 1/day
2nd lvl spell - mirror image 1/day
Oh, and I'm already decided on druidcraft being a definite for the race. I want to give them a cultural thing that they carry flower seeds, and rather than shake hands, when they meet someone else they create a flower from a seed and hand it to them. They also use the ability to make smells and minor sounds to confuse folks, and they consider it the height of comedy to secretly make fart smells around adventuers sitting around a campfire as they eat and then watching them blame each other. |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 19:30:43
quote:
Originally posted by Baltas
With Slingshots and Blowguns, it's a good idea, with it making Foxiytaurs more distinct.
With teeth, I think they could be also used as artificial claws-extensions of claws, even just of their front paws if not hands, with teeth being sharper and harder than claws.
I do wonder about what from could be made the trowing knives and claws. I thought Wyverns (whose sting could also harvested for poison), but they might be to powerful to just regularly kill them for resources, as well as bit to sapient.
Oooo, I like the idea of them making something to improve their natural claws (which probably suck for combat). Maybe not everyone does it, but the more fighter/ranger/rogue types might. Doing the wolverine thing could make for something that looks all cute and then... ouch... |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 19:27:30
quote:
Originally posted by Zeromaru X
The unholy mix of a halfling and a fox? Or are they fey? Which would mean they will be a mix of gnome and fox. Even unholier...
YES... halfling look, but with less meals... and gnomish for general outlook. I'm thinking they MAY be fey, in that I do want to have them generally in forests and possibly some minor magics. |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 19:22:25
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Originally posted by Ayrik
Foxes are small things, not much taller than a human adult's knees.
The fox-half torso and legs would have to be scaled unusually large for a fox, something like a "dire fox".
Wow, you nailed that. On a lot of my earlier 3d models, I had no idea how to properly scale minis, and therefore some are REALLY huge and some are teeny tiny. When you're just going to paint it in another program, that's not all that important, but if you go to print it in plastic, it becomes more so. Very recently though, I've been trying to make sure to open minis up and do a rough comparison to other minis for a size comparison. So, the mini I just created, I had sized up the mini of the fox by 10% to better fit with the humanoid torso. So, I just created a witch version with a tressym pet, and so I loaded a figure of a noble fighter standing up straight. Where the head of the fox would have been would have been not quite halfway up the man's thigh, and the full mini comes up to the man's waist if I could to the top of its ears.
Foxiytaur Witch with Tressym Familiar (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4560595) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.
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| Zeromaru X |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 19:18:22
The unholy mix of a halfling and a fox? Or are they fey? Which would mean they will be a mix of gnome and fox. Even unholier... |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 19:12:36
Foxiytaur Witch with Tressym Familiar (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4560595) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license. |
| Ayrik |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 18:42:29
Foxes are small things, not much taller than a human adult's knees.
The fox-half torso and legs would have to be scaled unusually large for a fox, something like a "dire fox". |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 17:15:39
Foxiytaur Female Slingshot (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4560486) by sleyvas is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution license. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 03 Aug 2020 : 16:25:36
Foxes are Canis Vulpes... So maybe vulpetaurs, instead of foxiytaurs? |
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